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		<title>Love note to shy girls everywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hiding where only the shy can find me. What shy eyes say that words can&#8217;t. Those are the words she longs for. Words like &#8220;stay&#8221;. Words like &#8220;yes, I do.&#8221; Words that mean, &#8220;You’re beautiful&#8221;, without ever needing to say so. Those words. Words that hide in a cup of peppermint tea, a glass of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalexotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12897878&amp;post=11548&amp;subd=mentalexotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fever</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; I never forgot your smell, or how soft your cheek was; like tender coconut flesh. How soft your cheek was, when I dared to push my lips against it. I never forgot how my back pressed against the wall. Green, cold, flaky paint. I remember trying to remember the moment the hot flush [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalexotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12897878&amp;post=11542&amp;subd=mentalexotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I think I am going to have a glass of wine. While I cafuné* you.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mentalexotica.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/i-think-i-am-going-to-have-a-glass-of-wine-while-i-cafune-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Here is the end of choice. [...] And what is choice except uncertainty of what we are?&#8221; &#160; I love the romance of you. The somewhat ambiguous nature of you. I love your knowing. Your silent, stoic firmness. Your obduracy. I love the vulnerabilities. The moments of softening. The fleeting times in which you allow me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalexotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12897878&amp;post=11539&amp;subd=mentalexotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I went fishing for stars</title>
		<link>http://mentalexotica.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/i-went-fishing-for-stars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She said: There is such joy, in seeing and being seen. Celebrate with me. Join me outside, open wide your arms so that your heart can follow, and turn to face the sky (I have reason to believe it has been waiting for a chance to kiss the overwhelming beauty of your smiling face). To [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalexotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12897878&amp;post=11528&amp;subd=mentalexotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For a Soundless Mermaid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does a woman from the sea sound like? &#160; The Little Mermaid had a voice that had no equal in the world. It was a voice that was sacrificed at the altar of love. I remember the fairy tale and I think to myself, a woman from the sea must sound like clear blue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalexotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12897878&amp;post=11523&amp;subd=mentalexotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I love&#8230; In the mood for love</title>
		<link>http://mentalexotica.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/why-i-love-in-the-mood-for-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This lyrical beauty, almost archaic.&#8221; I am listening to you. And I am agreeing. &#8220;The sway of the hips, the look. Where does it happen except in this magical, fictional space?&#8221; The intense deliberation. Each look towards and away. Each inhale of smoke &#38; exhale of defeat. The crushing elegance of it all. &#8220;The hand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalexotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12897878&amp;post=10670&amp;subd=mentalexotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For she who comes from the sea</title>
		<link>http://mentalexotica.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/for-she-who-comes-from-the-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a cliche, and I wish I knew how to say it better but I don&#8217;t. I love how you write. Words on a page become pictures. The word &#8216;bird&#8217; turns into a feathered creature swooping down into the word &#8216;river&#8217;, which now flows intrepidly, confidently into some unseen turn into the trees. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalexotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12897878&amp;post=10639&amp;subd=mentalexotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To hell with resolutions. I&#8217;m just going to start right and keep going.</title>
		<link>http://mentalexotica.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/to-hell-with-resolutions-im-just-going-to-start-right-and-keep-going/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Year resolutions. What&#8217;s your take? Are you an eye-rolling cynic? A self-confessed self-help junkie committed to bettering your life? A bored social media gadabout with nothing better to tweet about? Or maybe one of those &#8216;everyone-else-is-doing-it-so-why-not-me?&#8217; fellas. It doesn&#8217;t matter. Resolutions can be pretty useless when made up on the fly, and those made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalexotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12897878&amp;post=10635&amp;subd=mentalexotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It never happened – a Twitter romance in 3 acts</title>
		<link>http://mentalexotica.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/it-never-happened-a-twitter-romance-in-3-acts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; There is a romance to be had of all things wanting. A story to be found in all that is hungered for, and goes unfed. This is no masterpiece of theatre. No magnum opus. This is an episode of the unrequited. A tragi-comedy of but minuscule proportions. Tonight, I want to write to you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalexotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12897878&amp;post=10630&amp;subd=mentalexotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One hundred and fifty tweets for you</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago (or more) I was sitting around doing very little on a Friday evening. Not only was I bored, I was uninspired. &#8220;Where is my muse&#8221;, I thought, &#8220;Why has she forsaken me?&#8221; In all honesty, it was probably less theatrical than all that. I was running out of words. Maybe what I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mentalexotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12897878&amp;post=10624&amp;subd=mentalexotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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